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Show ! 1 : "'! 1 -. t - J VJ V;. 3 x 1 , . :tVr? . . : vl J " IV1 Escalante's talented artist Sheila Woolley Faulkner is currently showing 30 of her paintings at the Fairview Museum where the exhibit runs through Oct. 21. She retired to Escalante, the home of her grandparents, after retiring from 25 years as a teacher in Salt Lake City schools. Returning to her ancestral roots, she de- -cided to paint a collection depicting the life' and spirit of the Utah pioneers. Escalante Artist's Exhibit Now At Fairview Museum FAIRVIEW The Fairview Museum is showing 30 paintings by Escalante artist, Sheila W. Woolley Faulkner, to run until Oct. 21. Faulkner was born in 1926 in Salt Lake City and educated in schools there. She graduated from the University of Utah in 1947 with high honors and Phi Beta Kappa key. In 1948, she married Robert Woolley and taught in Salt Lake schools for 25 years. After retirement, re-tirement, she moved to Escalante, the home of her grandparents. Admiring the work of Rosa Bonheur, and being a life-long horse-loving woman who has al: ways ridden on her favorite mountain moun-tain and desert trails, Faulkner wanted to paint horses. The paintings paint-ings in this exhibition were inspired in-spired by the things and scenes she saw while riding through the grand Utah landscape. Her love for history came from teaching the subject in junior high schools, especially, after learning of her own pioneer heritage. As she rode many trails from the Uinta mountains to Skull Valley in the Great Salt Lake Desert, and in the Escalante area, she saw evidences of how people had lived in remote places and desperately tried to make their living from the land. As she painted these pictures, she realized that she could work toward a collection collec-tion of paintings which would depict de-pict the life and spirit of the Utah Pioneer in the Great American West. Faulkner studied with Theodore Milton Wassmer who gave her les-sons les-sons so that she could give her horses a landscape to run and breathe in. At the University of Utah, she studied with LeConte Stewart, Mable Frazer, Alvin Git-tins Git-tins and George Dibble. Faulkner has given several paintings to the museum's permanent perma-nent collection. Recently married to Robert M. Faulkner, Sheila and her husband reside in Escalante. The museum is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and on Sundays, 2-6 p.m. For more information persons can call 427-9216. |
